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Quotes by Actress

"The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s."
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Maureen O'Hara
"The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s."
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"She was a genius, my mother."
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Sally Kirkland
"She was a genius, my mother."
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"'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens."
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Ellen Muth
"'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens."
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"She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges ahead despite all of that. I think that's encouraging. She's got some problems, but she has hope and tries to plow through things. I think that's a good role model."
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Molly Shannon
"She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges ahead despite all of that. I think that's encouraging. She's got some problems, but she has hope and tries to plow through things. I think that's a good role model."
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"People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie."
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Amanda Bynes
"People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie."
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"In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place."
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Christine Baranski
"In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place."
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"The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends."
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Shirley Knight
"The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends."
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"Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other."
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Emmy Rossum
"Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other."
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"I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself."
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Drea De Matteo
"I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself."
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"The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family."
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Patricia Richardson
"The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family."
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"How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination."
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Barbra Streisand
"How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination."
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"I watched a porno once, it was really funny."
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Katie Holmes
"I watched a porno once, it was really funny."
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"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."
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Meryl Streep
"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."
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"I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream."
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Victoria Principal
"I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream."
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"I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised."
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Sylvia Kristel
"I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised."
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"Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people."
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Sophie Marceau
"Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people."
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"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."
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Marilyn Monroe
"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."
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"I wanted to go out and experience the fields."
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Rhona Mitra
"I wanted to go out and experience the fields."
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"I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me."
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Julie Delpy
"I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me."
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"I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers."
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Denise Richards
"I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers."
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"I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction."
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Lusia Strus
"I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction."
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"I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow."
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Sharon Gless
"I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow."
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"I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen."
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Audrey Tautou
"I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen."
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"Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth."
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Brooke Shields
"Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth."
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"We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable."
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Liv Ullmann
"We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable."
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"Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business."
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Robin Wright Penn
"Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business."
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"Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her."
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Judy Davis
"Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her."
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"They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen."
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Margot Kidder
"They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen."
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"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."
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Audrey Hepburn
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."
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"Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock."
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Jolene Blalock
"Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock."
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"I leave before being left. I decide."
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Brigitte Bardot
"I leave before being left. I decide."
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"I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania."
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Sharon Stone
"I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania."
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"I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated."
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Ashley Judd
"I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated."
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"George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection."
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Bernadette Peters
"George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection."
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"The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you."
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Illeana Douglas
"The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you."
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"I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it."
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Loni Anderson
"I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it."
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"When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life."
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Gillian Anderson
"When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life."
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"One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays."
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Vivien Leigh
"One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays."
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"You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness."
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Joy Page
"You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness."
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"I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships."
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Calista Flockhart
"I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships."
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"I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know."
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Esther Williams
"I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know."
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"Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn."
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Charlize Theron
"Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn."
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"When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied."
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Rhona Mitra
"When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied."
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"As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom."
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Linda Fiorentino
"As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom."
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"I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food."
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
"I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food."
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"I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally."
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Jeanne Moreau
"I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally."
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"I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed."
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Kirstie Alley
"I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed."
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"I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it."
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Jodie Foster
"I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it."
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"I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express."
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Angelina Jolie
"I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express."
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"Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer."
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Brigitte Bardot
"Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer."
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